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Tiger Woods Crash Caused By Unsafe Speed, LA Sheriff Says

Investigators say that they believe Woods mistakenly hit the accelerator rather than the brake as he was negotiating a curve in Los Angeles in February. (Image credit: Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP)

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Snub in EU-Turkey meeting highlights gender equality issue

Gender equality issues took center stage Wednesday in Brussels a day after Ursula von der Leyen, one the EU’s most powerful executives, was treated like a second-rank official during a visit to Ankara.

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Snub in EU-Turkey meeting highlights gender equality issue

Gender equality issues took center stage Wednesday in Brussels a day after Ursula von der Leyen, one the EU’s most powerful executives, was treated like a second-rank official during a visit to Ankara.

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U.K. coronavirus variant is now the dominant strain in the U.S. – NBC News

U.K. coronavirus variant is now the dominant strain in the U.S.  NBC News Soap and water are enough to reduce COVID-19 risk in your home, says CDC  KING 5 UK variant is now the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, says CDC

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From Sirens to Songbirds: COVID’s Second Spring Brings Hope

On a cloudless April day on the West Side of Manhattan, Erin Fox emerged from the giant glass building where she had gotten the second dose of her Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19. The Javits Center—normally the home of various comic-book

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‘Sofagate’: Brussels angry as Turkey leaves EU chief Ursula  von der Leyen standing

The European Commission hit out Wednesday after its chief Ursula von der Leyen was left without a chair as Turkey’s president sat down for talks with her male counterpart. Video from Tuesday’s encounter in Ankara showed von der Leyen flummoxed

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How a Long History of Intertwined Racism and Misogyny Leaves Asian Women in America Vulnerable to Violence

In the weeks since eight people, six of whom were Asian women, were killed in a mass shooting at three massage businesses in the Atlanta area, the conversations prompted by the event have continued—as has the fear felt by many

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At Least 43,000 Kids in the U.S. Have Lost a Parent to COVID-19, Study Finds

There’s been a collective quality to the dying the world has witnessed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The nearly 3 million global deaths that have been recorded so far have not been discrete events; rather, each one has

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